"flukey" meaning in All languages combined

See flukey on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈfluːki/ Forms: more flukey [comparative], most flukey [superlative]
Etymology: fluke + -y Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fluke|y}} fluke + -y Head templates: {{en-adj}} flukey (comparative more flukey, superlative most flukey)
  1. lucky Synonyms (lucky): jammy
    Sense id: en-flukey-en-adj-25-929fK Disambiguation of 'lucky': 99 1
  2. unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes Translations (unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes): переменчивый (peremenčivyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-flukey-en-adj-gn5MMvp7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 59 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 30 70 Disambiguation of 'unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fluky Related terms: fluke

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for flukey meaning in All languages combined (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fluke",
        "3": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "fluke + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "fluke + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more flukey",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most flukey",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "flukey (comparative more flukey, superlative most flukey)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "fluke"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, “Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 2018-06-24",
          "text": "For once, at a World Cup finals England could enjoy themselves, cut loose, score a bucket-load of goals, and giggle at the fact that Harry Kane’s hat-trick goal that makes him the tournament top goalscorer was a flukey deflection off his heel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lucky"
      ],
      "id": "en-flukey-en-adj-25-929fK",
      "links": [
        [
          "lucky",
          "lucky"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "sense": "lucky",
          "word": "jammy"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "30 70",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -y",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We would have got to Spain already if it wasn't for the flukey wind.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes"
      ],
      "id": "en-flukey-en-adj-gn5MMvp7",
      "links": [
        [
          "unstable",
          "unstable"
        ],
        [
          "unpredictable",
          "unpredictable"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "peremenčivyj",
          "sense": "unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes",
          "word": "переменчивый"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfluːki/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "fluky"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flukey"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -y",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fluke",
        "3": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "fluke + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "fluke + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more flukey",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most flukey",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "flukey (comparative more flukey, superlative most flukey)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "fluke"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, “Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 2018-06-24",
          "text": "For once, at a World Cup finals England could enjoy themselves, cut loose, score a bucket-load of goals, and giggle at the fact that Harry Kane’s hat-trick goal that makes him the tournament top goalscorer was a flukey deflection off his heel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lucky"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lucky",
          "lucky"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We would have got to Spain already if it wasn't for the flukey wind.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unstable",
          "unstable"
        ],
        [
          "unpredictable",
          "unpredictable"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfluːki/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "lucky",
      "word": "jammy"
    },
    {
      "word": "fluky"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "peremenčivyj",
      "sense": "unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes",
      "word": "переменчивый"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flukey"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.